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Persistent  Calls 
Demand  Answer-Yes  o«No 

tur  representatives  on  the  field 
have  done  and  will  do  their  part 
Will  the  men  and  women 
at  home  do  theirs? 


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The  Foreign  Work  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church  has  recently  developed 
so  rapidly  that  the  annual  appropria- 
tions have  not  kept  pace  with  even  a 
normal  growth,  and  unusual  open- 
ings have  necessarily  been  neglected 
till  the  situation  in  places  has  become 
acute,  especially  in  the  educational 
and  evangelistic  departments. 

Therefore,  after  most  careful  con- 
sideration, and  much  correspond- 
ence, and  selecting  from  the  objects 
approved  by  the  Missions  those  de- 
manding immediate  attention,  the 
Board  has,  with  the  authorization  of 
the  General  Assembly,  instituted  a 
financial  campaign  for  objects  abso- 
lutely necessary  in  addition  to  the 
regular  work. 

A Million  DoUar  Investment  will 

be  necessary  at  once  if  we  are  to 
meet  the  demands,  be  assured  of 
holding  ground  already  taken,  and 
make  an  advance  at  all  in  accord 
with  the  pressing  requirements  of  the 
work,  with  the  ability  of  the  church 
and  with  the  enlargement  and  de- 
velopments at  home. 


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Christian  Strategy  demands  it,  and 
the  forward  steps  are  such  as  wise 
judgment  and  true  faith  demand  in 
view  of  present  world  conditions 
and  the  clear  call  of  God. 

The  Magnitude  of  the  Investment 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  For- 
eign Missions  is  not  yet  fully  appre- 
ciated by  the  Church  at  large,  though 
appropriations  for  the  year  ending 
March  31,  1916,  were  $2,255,918- 
.29,  and  the  total  actual  contribu- 
tions and  credits  for  the  work  were 

$2,287,398.81. 

Two  and  a quarter  millions  is  but 

a small  item  when  we  consider:  The 
size  of  the  problem,  the  unfinished 
work,  and  the  abounding  capacity  of 
our  people  in  the  face  of  present 
opportunities.  Is  it  not  our  duty  to 
go  forward  to  meet  our  task  and  to 
sound  a call  to  other  churches  to  go 
forward  with  us? 

It  is  proposed  therefore  that: 

Every  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  shall  be  given  the  oppor- 
tunity to  contribute  in  1916-17  to- 


ward  this  million  dollar  fund  such 
a gift  as  they  may  feel  able  to  give, 
in  addition  to  their  regular  contribu- 
tions to  the  Foreign  Board. 

Board  Secretaries,  returned  mis- 
sionaries and  others  will  be  in  readi- 
ness to  co-operate  in  local  campaigns 
covering  as  many  days  as  necessary 
— these  proposed  campaigns  to  con- 
sist of  sermons  and  addresses,  men’s 
dinners,  luncheons,  and  such  other 
gatherings  as  may  locally  seem  wise 
and  desirable. 

Every  Missionary  Committeeman 
and  Pastor  will  be  interested  and 

will  desire  that  his  own  church  shall 
be  identified  with  this  new  advance 
in  a time  of  world  wide  changes. 
He  should  not  wait,  but  is  urged  to 
write  at  once  for  further  information 
and  co-operation  to: 

The  Home  Department 

OF  THE 

Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.  S,  A. 

156  FIFTH  AVE.,  NEW  YORK 


t0  bf  J«rl«bFb  ar?  tnbtrat^b 
0ti  f0U0t0wg  pagpa 

Hatin  America 

Commercial,  Political 
$100,000  and  Social  conditions  in 
Latin  America  were 
never  so  studied  by  North  America 
as  they  have  been  during  the  war. 
If  strong  men  in  the  United  States 
are  really  awake  to  the  opportunity, 
they  will  share  and  lead  in  the  next 
ten  years  in  a development  on  all 
lines  entirely  eclipsing  everything  in 
the  past.  The  development  is  in- 
evitable; it  is  only  a question  of 
leadership  and  conservation.  Clear- 
ly it  must  include  a great  advance 
by  the  Church  of  Christ  unless  we 
fail  ignominiously. 

The  work  must  be  reconstructed 
in  Mexico  where  the  Board  has 
agreed  to  remove  its  operations  to 


the  Southern  States  which  have  been 
almost  unoccupied  and  it  must  be 
in  a position  to  join  in  the  united 
development  of  publications  and 
higher  schools. 

Colombia  with  4,000,000  popula- 
tion, is  left  entirely  to  our  mission- 
aries. Ours  is  the  only  church  mis- 
sion in  Venezuela  and  Guatemala. 

The  amount  asked  for  is  for  evangel- 
ization and  schools,  and  necessary 
facilities  for  the  work,  including  better 
equipment  for  two  agricultural  and 
industrial  schools  in  Brazil;  a theolog- 
ical seminary  for  the  Methodists  and 
ourselves  needed  in  Chile,  with  the 
means  to  conduct  an  evangelistic 
campaign  in  the  great  central  and 
populous  valley  from  Santiago  to  Con- 
cepcion ; re-establishment  in  Mexico, 
and  an  enlargement  of  the  work  of 
direct  evangelism  in  every  field. 


PRIMARY  AND  GRAMMAR  DEPARTMENTS.  BOY'S  COLLEGE,  BOGOTA.  COLOMBIA. 


^lUiman  Snsititiitc, 

i^lanbjs 

One  of  the  most  dis- 
$50,000  tinct  challenges  offered 
the  Presbyterian  Church 
is  the  situation  in  the  Silliman  Insti- 
tute, Philippine  Islands.  One  of  the 
greatest  centers  of  evangelistic,  edu- 
cational activity  in  the  whole  mission 
field  is  this  group  of  700  students 
at  Dumaguete,  on  the  Island  of 
Negros.  More  than  300  were  re- 
cently turned  away  for  lack  of  ac- 
commodations. The  responsibility 
of  this  enterprise  falls  upon  our 
church.  The  satisfaction  and  joy 
that  will  come  from  this  bit  of  far 
extending  service  is  for  some  Pres- 
byterian individual  or  group— a 
satisfaction  further  emphasized  by 
the  fact  that  the  native  Filipinos 
themselves  are  endeavoring  to  raise 
an  additional  $50,000. 

As  far  back  as  1 904  Hon.  W.  H. 
Taft,  then  Civil  Governor  of  the 
Philippine  Islands,  said  that  Silli- 
man Institute  had  done  more  to 
pacify  the  Island  of  Negros  than  all 
the  efforts  of  the  American  Govern- 
ment. 


CLASS  IN  AGRICULTURE,  SILLIMAN  INSTITUTE. 


Persia— College  at  ^eljeran 

One  of  the  great 
$50,000  schools  under  the  con- 
trol of  the  Board  is  the 
high  school  at  Teheran,  with  an  over- 
crowded enrollment  of  540  Persians, 
Armenians,  Hebrews  and  Zoroas- 
trians. 

There  is  needed  $50,000  at  once 
to  begin  buildings  and  to  furnish 
initial  equipment  toward  providing 
t’  e institution  urgently  demanded  at 
this  critical  time  in  the  history  of 
Persia.  American  colleges  are 
found  in  almost  every  land.  In 
Persia  there  is  not  a college  of  any 
sort. 

The  people  have  lost  faith  in  the 
old  way  of  doing  things.  They  are 
fully  persuaded  that  Western  educa- 
tion will  solve  all  their  difficulties 
and  are  determined  to  have  it  for 
their  children,  and  they  send  them 
in  ever  increasing  numbers  to  our 
school.  To  provide  a true  Christian 
training  for  the  young  men  of  Persia 
is  our  special  task. 

The  land  has  been  secured  with 
the  assistance  of  the  Russian  and 
British  banks  in  Teheran.  Buildings 
and  teachers  are  needed.  Our  Mis- 
sion is  alone  in  the  work  in  the  whole 
Northern  half  of  Persia. 


HIGH  'SCHOOL  DEPARTMENT.  AMERICAN  HIGH  SCHOOL.  TEHERAN. 


^iam 

The  Only  Missionary 
$50,000  Organization  at  work 
in  Siam  is  the  American 
Presbyterian  Church. 

Large  areas  of  the  country  have 
never  been  reached,  and  no  mis- 
sionaries are  now  free  and  prepared 
for  direct  evangelistic  work  in  Bang- 
kok, the  capital,  with  a population 
of  800,000. 

The  Young  King  himself,  edu- 
cated in  England,  and  eager  to  ad- 
vance the  interests  of  his  people, 
praises  especially,  the  educational 
and  medical  work  of  the  mission- 
aries. 

Large  Sections  of  China,  to  the 
North  and  East,  can  best  be  reached 
by  the  missionaries  and  language  of 
Siam. 

The  King’s  Brother,  Prince 
Mehadol,  is  now  in  this  country 
studying  sanitation,  the  relation  of 
alcohol  to  disease,  and  kindred 
topics. 


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The  Newspapers  Correspondents 

report  him  saying : “ I came  here 

because  I believe  I can  learn  most 
here  and  because  we  need  American 
sympathy  and  help.  We  want  to 
trade  with  you  and  want  you  to  take 
an  interest  in  us.  King  Vajiravudh  is 
the  only  independent  Buddhist  sov- 
ereign in  the,  world,  and  as  such  is 
regarded  as  the  chief  champion  of  the 
religion  of  Buddha.  Nevertheless, 
no  foreigners  are  more  welcome  in 
Siam  than  the  missionaries.  They 
have  done  wonderful  things  for  us, 
and  the  Presbyterian  Board  has 
greatly  aided  our  educational  author- 
ities. Their  deeds  are  the  kind  that 
will  live  after  them,  a constant  inspir- 
ation for  good  ” (JDail^  papers.  Sept. 

25,  1916.) 

Will  the  Men  and  Women  of  the 
Church  Meet  the  Challenge  ? 


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DR.  PEOPLES  AND  SIAMESE  EVANGELISTS, 


Cfjma Cbangelisitic  anb 
Cbucational  iSteebsi 

Cbangelis^tic 

In  scores  of  the  walled 

$50,000  cities  of  China  the  out- 
standing feature  is  a 
great  stone  or  brick  pawn  shop 
which  because  of  recent  social 
changes  has  fallen  into  disuse.  One 
of  these  can  be  purchased  or  a new 
building  can  be  erected,  and  fitted 
out  as  a church  with  rooms  for  a 
native  minister  and  his  family,  sev- 
eral Bible  women,  occasional  guests, 
and  other  features  essential  to  such 
work,  at  a cost  of  about  $5,000. 
Strong  native  workers  will  cost  about 
$500  annually,  and  are  now  avail- 
able. 

It  would  mean  the  immediate  in- 
stallation of  a work  in  new  cities  of 
such  a character  as  to  attract  the  at- 
tention of  all  classes,  and  from  ex- 
periments already  made,  should 


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mean  the  interest  and  early  co- 
operation of  scholars  and  officials, 
and  a self-sustaining  congregation  in 
less  than  five  years.  An  individual 
can  take  over  the  evangelistic  pro- 
gram of  an  entire  city  with  an  orig- 
inal investment  of  $5,000  and  an 
annual  outlay  of  $500.  What  an 
opportunity  for  a modest,  effective 
memorial,  or  plain  investment!  In 
addition  the  work  of  country  evan- 
gelization and  itineration  as  well  as 
of  city  chapel  preaching  needs  to  be 
enlarged  in  each  of  our  seven  Mis- 
sions in  China. 


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Cbttcatforal 

Christian  education  is 
$70,000  one  of  China’s  greatest 

needs.  In  the  City  of 
Peking  there  has  recently  been 
formed  a Union  Christian  University, 
uniting  the  various  educational  in- 
stitutions hitherto  carried  on  by  the 
Congregational  Churches  of  the 
United  States  and  England,  and  the 
Methodist  and  Presbyterian  churches 
in  the  United  States.  This  new  and 
large  university  requires  a new  site 
and  buildings,  as  the  plants  of  the 
former  institutions  are  too  small  and 
are  needed  for  Preparatory  Acad- 
emies. Each  organization  compos- 
ing the  Union  is  to  give  a stipulated 
sum  for  the  general  fund,  the  share 
of  the  Presbyterian  church  being 
$70,000,  but  with  the  real  need  of 
$100,000.  This  amount  is  modest 
when  it  is  noted  that  this  great  Uni- 
versity is  located  in  the  Capital  at 
China,  in  the  great  province  of 
Chihli  with  a population  of  nearly 
21,000,000  people,  and  in  a posi- 
tion of  extraordinary  strategic  im- 
portance, not  only  for  that  province, 
but  for  the  whole  Republic. 


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THEOLOGICAL  CLASS  IN  CHINA. 

THE  SORT  OF  MEN  WHO  WILL  MAKE  CHINA'S  EVANGELIZATION  POSSIBLE 


®nion  €bucational  OTiorfe 
in  Japan 

All  the  higher  educa- 

$50,000  tional  work  of  the 
Board  in  Japan  is  done 
co-operatively.  Its  only  higher 
school  for  the  education  of  young 
men  and  the  preparation  of  Chris- 
tian teachers  and  preachers  is  the 
Meiji  Gakuin  which  is  supported 
jointly  by  us  and  the  Board  of  Mis- 
sions of  the  Reformed  Church.  It 
is  imperative  that  we  strengthen  the 
work  of  this  school,  both  for  the  sake 
of  the  work  in  Japan  and  in  the  in- 
terest of  the  work  in  Korea,  where 
the  Japanese  teachers  required  in  the 
Mission  schools  should  be  earnest 
and  well  prepared  Christian  men. 
In  addition  to  the  strengthening  of 
the  Meiji  Gakuin  the  Board  desires 
to  be  in  a position  to  join  in  the 
movement  for  a Christian  University. 

A Union  Christian  College  for 
Japanese  Women  is  now  at  last  as- 
sured. The  Mission  Boards  of  the 
Baptist,  Methodist,  Canadian  Metho- 
dist and  Reformed  churches,  to- 


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gather  with  the  Women’s  Union  Mis- 
sionary Society,  have  already  agreed 
upon  the  plan  for  this  Union  College 
for  Japanese  Women,  to  be  located 
in  Tokio.  It  is  to  be  a first  class 
institution  of  higher  grade  than  is 
now  open  to  women  in  Japan,  and 
will  be  an  interdenominational  col- 
lege for  training  Christian  Japanese 
women  for  service  among  their  own 
people,  with  a curriculum  adapted 
to-  the  needs  of  that  country,  and 
recognizing  the  leadership  and  co- 
operation of  the  Japanese  as  essen- 
tial to  success.  No  more  significant 
union  enterprise  has  been  organized 
in  Japan  in  the  last  quarter  of  a cen- 
tury than  this  great  institution.  Each 
of  the  societies  cooperating  is  to  con- 
tribute its  quota  toward  the  equip- 
ment, and  $22,500  is  apportioned 
to  the  Presbyterian  Church.  Here 
is  an  opportunity  for  some  “Great 
Heart”  to  do  a royal  act  of  love  for 
the  womanhood  of  Japan. 


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ALLiMN!  OF  THE  "KOKURIKO  JO  GAKKO”  AT  KANAZAWA.  THIRTIETH  ANNIVERSARY  OF  SCHOOL. 


Siibia 

The  outstanding  fea- 
$50,000  ture  in  India  today  is 

the  great  Mass  Move- 
ment toward  Christianity  now  affect- 
ing large  bodies  of  the  people,  and 
unprecedented  in  the  history  of  Mis- 
sions. It  has  been  going  on  for 
years,  but  it  has  been  impossible  for 
the  missionaries  within  the  limit  of 
the  appropriations  to  meet  the  press- 
ing demands  made  upon  them  by 
the  large  number  of  those  who  are 
open  to  baptism.  It  is  an  oppor- 
tunity which  may  pass  away.  The 
regular  organized  work  of  the  mis- 
sions is  insufficient  to  meet  this  ex- 
traordinary crisis  and  the  Board 
earnestly  asks  for  increased  funds  to 
be  used  exclusively  for  evangelistic 
work  among  the  masses  of  the 
people  of  India. 


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ittoga  Huilbing  Jfunb 

One  result  of  the  Mass  Movement 
in  India  is  that  there  are  today  20,- 
000  Christians  of  this  class  in  the 
bounds  of  the  Punjab  Mission  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church,  more  than  half 
of  them  having  come  within  the 
last  five  years.  They  are  farm 
hands,  impoverished,  illiterate  and 
living  under  conditions  unspeakably 
wretched.  The  problem  of  the 
church  is  to  help  them  where  they 
are.  There  are  now  in  the  Mission 
1,000  villages  in  which  there  are 
Christians,  and  there  are  schools  in 
less  than  1 00  of  these. 

There  is  a training  school  for 
village  teachers  at  Moga  with  ninety 
students,  which  should  be  increased 
to  at  least  three  hundred.  There 
should  be  provided  plain  buildings, 
for  schools  and  dormitories,  and 
shops  for  carpenters,  blacksmiths, 
and  others.  A farm  of  at  least  fifty 
acres  should  be  provided  and  given 
a modern  equipment,  such  as  stables, 
dairy  buildings,  wells,  carts,  oxen, 
cows,  poultry,  plows,  drills,  etc.,  etc. 
This  is  practical,  and  much  has  al- 
ready been  done  with  almost  no 
equipment.  The  possibilities  seem 
unlimited. 


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PREACHING  SERVICE  AMONG  THE  OUTCASTS  OF  INDIA 


^probeb  ^ropertp  i^eebsi 

The  Board  has  for 
$530,000  many  years  been  un- 
able to  make  any  spe- 
cial appropriation  for  new  property, 
and  at  this  time  the  approved  prop- 
erty list,  which  means  the  most 
urgent  properties  asked  for  by  the 
Missions  and  approved  by  the  Board 
amounts  to  $530,000.  The  list 
furnished  by  the  China  Council  num- 
bers 1 86  different  items,  and  lists 
from  other  missions  are  large  and  of 
pressing  importance  to  their  work. 
In  each  case,  care  has  been  taken 
to  eliminate  all  requests  that  in  the 
judgment  of  the  majority  of  the  Mis- 
sion were  not  urgent,  and  the  re- 
quests have  been  pared  down  to  the 
lowest  possible  limit. 

No  better  evidence  could  be  given 
the  church  at  large  of  the  vast  ex- 
pansion of  the  work  than  the  simple 
statement  that  the  Board  would  to- 
morrow grant  requests  for  property 
to  the  amount  of  $530,000  as  essen- 
tial to  the  work  if  generous  donors 
at  home  could  be  counted  on  to  fur- 
nish the  money. 


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“CALLS  FROM  THE  FOREIGN  FIELD” 

BOARD  OF  FOREIGN  MISSIONS  OF  THE  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH  IN  THE  U.  S.  A. 


FORM  2^4*8 


NOVCMSEn  1016 


